Hi, On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Tobias Bocanegra <tri...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Davide Giannella > <giannella.dav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Question: why don't we use the maven checkstyle plugin? > for what? we are quite liberal in coding style and respect personal > preferences. the only checkstyle rules that make sense are the ones > that find or prevent bugs (like avoiding .* imports).
+1 As a general rule, if you're changing existing code, stick with the existing formatting (i.e. no line in a path should be about formatting, unless the patch is explicitly about that). If introducing new code, we use the standard Java coding conventions (with spaces instead of tabs) as the main guideline, without specifying or policing the formatting in any more detail. BR, Jukka Zitting
